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Follow-on financing is harder to raise these days, which means founders must watch their spending like hawks while keeping the peace with their investors like sweet, cooing doves. Was FTX an empire ‘built on lies’ or a startup that ‘grew too quickly’?
If someone wants to advise you on “storytelling,” you have my permission to skip that meeting and work on your data room instead.
Just in case you're wondering what's happening in the sectors our team's going to talk about at Disrupt, we've put together a handy primer of surveys.
Most startups never get past the pitch deck stage, so getting an investor to say yes can become a founder’s all-encompassing desire.
Most startups never get past the pitch deck stage, so getting an investor to say yes can become a founder's all-encompassing desire. Getting into an accelerator like Y Combinator can open countless doors, but this year, some investors are saying that the higher valuations these startups obtain today will make fundraising more difficult later. In a TC+ article that examines four different seed investor models, Work-Bench general partner Jonathan Lehr examines "the underlying incentives and biases of different investor archetypes, ranging from YC to seed firms to multistage firms.&#x...